August Pinup/Minicomic #2 Winner

Thank you all for voting! It was a very close race, but the winner is...

5. (Artist's Suggestion) The Baroness Rises Again - In a Dieselpunk cold war world, the untimely passing of "the empire's" ruler, Countess Melinda Coldfire, has put the parliament on emergency mode to try and find anyone more fit to rule than the only known living heir, her insolent child nephew, who's luckily on vacation. Searching high and low through the empire's records, they find a unlikely candidate among the workers of one of the empire's many arms factories.

Silas Everton, a distant relative to the countess is approached with an offer that can't be refused, a life outside of the grueling factories and smog-filled streets, all on the condition that he allows the parliament to do as they please under his royal name. But Silas is a crafty one and counters with a condition of his own. And in the grand scheme of the whole business, it's a rather minor one.

Never one to feel comfortable in the gender she was assigned, after years of secrecy and the finest medical treatments the empire can provide, Countess Siobhan I Coldfire-Everton, makes her first public reveal just in time for the winter solstice festival. Having indulged in the finest luxuries befitting her station, Siobhan is unrecognizable in more ways than the superficial. Now truly immersed in the opulence of her royal wealth, the countess cares little for her loyal lower class subjects and turns a blind eye to the actions of the parliament, as long as her own comfort is guaranteed.

[Dieselpunk dystopian setting - consensual corruption of a male industry worker to a decadent and indulgent countess, minicomic. "Siobhan" is pronounced "Shee-vaun" by the way]

Big thanks for indulging me on this idea <3